Do you like chocolate? Do you like rich and decadent drinks? Do you want to improve your health in one glass? I’d like to introduce you to my raw chocolate superfood smoothie recipe which is awesome for you and your sweetie to share for Valentine’s Day. Forget the fattening chocolate bars and candy, grab this smoothie instead and not only will you feed your need for chocolate, you and your sweetie will be doing going for your bodies! And make sure to check out the giveaway below for a chance to win awesome free stevia courtesy of NuNaturals.
I love all my smoothies — they have helped me lose a tremendous amount of weight in the last year and have also helped me feel great. Sometimes though, I want some chocolate. This chocolate superfood smoothie is perfect for an after-dinner snack.
This smoothie uses the superfoods of cacao, acai and chia. Check out some of the awesome health benefits of raw cacao powder – this chocolate packs taste and super-charged nutrition! (source)
- Cacao has more antioxidant flavonoids than any food tested so far, including blueberries, red wine, and black and green teas. In fact, it has up to four times the quantity of antioxidants found in green tea.
- Raw cacao powder is a great source of magnesium, which is beneficial for heart health, good digestion, brain alertness, strong bones, and mental health.
- A Harvard study focused on the Kuna Indians off the Caribbean coast of Panama who drink 5 cups of cacao every day, linking it to their lower rates of heart disease and hypertension.
And now the exciting giveaway!!
NuNaturals makes the stevia I like to use in my smoothies and juices. I like the quality of their products and that their stevia is alcohol-free. They have been nice enough to offer y’all a chance to win one of four packages. Each package will include
- one bottle of their brand new chocolate stevia
AND
- one bottle of either their lemon, orange or peppermint stevia.
How To Enter:
Leave a comment with how you plan to spend Valentine’s Day this year. You can also like the LTF Facebook page and/or the NuNaturals Facebook page for an extra entry. Leave a note in your comment if you like either or both pages.
The contest will run through 11:59pm Eastern Time on February 14, 2013. I will randomly select the 4 winners on February 15 and will notify the winners by email so make sure you use your real email in your entry (the email will not be shared).
Happy Valentine’s Day!!
- 2 frozen bananas
- 1.5 cups strawberries
- 1 tablespoon acai powder (optional)
- 2.5 tablespoons cacao powder
- 1 dropper NuNaturals chocolate stevia
- 1 tablespoon chia seeds
- 1 cup water
- Blend and taste and adjust stevia to desired sweetness level.
- Split into two glasses, toast and enjoy!
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I plan on spending my valentine’s day with my boo and my brand new juicer! I liked the NuNaturals Facebook page so please give me a +1 entry.
I will be doing what I have done for the last 22 years, enjoying a nice dinner with my wife and then a nice relaxing evening together. We always have enjoyed chocolate at night but this year I will be talking her into this smoothie instead! I liked your facebook page Allen.
I am hoping this guy I like at work will finally ask me out!!! I keep hinting and hinting and hope that this will be our first date.
My husband is overseas this week on business so I will be treating the kiddies to a nice homemade meal (I plan to try your sweet potato fries) and then we will probably play some Wii in the evening.
I can’t wait to try this smoothie Allen. I want to wait until V-Day but may just go ahead and make it tomorrow morning. Your smoothie recipes are so yummy and delish!
Sadly I will be on a plane back from Tokyo on V-Day so I don’t think I will be doing anything but hoping to sleep on the plane. I will say that thanks to your inspiration, I ate way better than I have on previous Tokyo trips. Staying with your blog has helped me to feel better while over here.
I will actually be spending it with both my husband and my parents. haha. Going out to eat and enjoying being at “home” for a little while
Hi there! I’m new to the blog but have been getting your smoothie newsletter for a few weeks. I love it! I have IBS so a lot of my meals have to be smoothies and they started to get a little boring.. Not anymore! I had no idea they made flavored stevia! That’s a game changer.
Anywho I plan to spend my valentines day at :/ I work at an Italian restaraunt so my night of love will be spent serving overly prices high carb meals to the love birds. *sigh*
Just realized I had quite a few typos *doh* that’s what I get for relying on autocorrect. Anyways, I liked the LTF Facebook page!
Aaanddd the nunaturals Facebook page
I would like to win the lemon stevia – thank you.
I’m spending valentines day working! But right after heading out of town to Baguio here in the Philippines! It’s a mountain area known here to have the freshest produce! Spending the weekend detoxifying in my log cabin with friends armed with my fave juicer and blender! I would so love to make the raw chocolate smoothie for them and blow their minds away! Hahahha
I can not wait to try this smoothie! Chocolate is my weakness! Hopefully I can pick up some stevia today so I can make this smoothie. I will be going out to dinner with the hubby and friends this year for valentines day. Leaving the kiddos home
I will be celebrating with my Sweetie. I’ll make us both a spevcial Valentine’s Day smoothie.
I will spend the first part of Valentine’s Day with my 13 month old granddaughter while her mommy is working and then the evening will be spent with my hubby – probably go out to eat and then relax at home!
I plan on spending Valentine’s Day by making heart shaped pancakes for my husband and daughter for breakfast, followed by heart shaped grilled cheese for lunch, and a steak and crab dinner. I also plan to do a scavenger hunt with my daughter and spending the day talking about love. <3
I liked LTF.
I liked NuNaturals.
I teach a nutrition class on Thursdays to high school home schoolers. So I’ll do that on Valentines and then fix a special meal for hubby and 3 teenage sons. I’m not on Facebook. I use lemon, orange, root beer, and vanilla cream stevia, but haven’t tried the chocolate. Just started smoothies! Would love to be able to try the chocolate stevia!
Wow – that’s awesome Kathy – teaching the importance of nutrition to high school kids is wonderful and will help them make the healthy choice as they grow up. Root Beer stevia – that’s a new one!
I will be spending it with my hubby and our threes sweet blessings.
This Valentine’s I’m going to learn to love myself, and drink lots of veggie juice
I’ll be spending it with my husband and 3 beautiful kids!
My husband and I plan to go to lunch on Valentine’s Day.
with my sweetheart at our favorite restaurant in town! Thank you
I will be making my kids a special Valentine’s dinner at home with a raw twist to the menu! I liked NuNaturals Facebook page and yours last week. Thanks for the creative ideas and recipes for living a healthy, happy life!
Due to a turn of events, I am home for Valentine’s Day. I am going to be cooking a steak dinner for my parents
Love your smoothie recipes, and love the idea of flavored liquid stevia! I’ve only used the powdered stevia or agave liquid, never liquid stevia before! I will “like” the NuNaturals FB page when I get home from work…thx!
Thanks Roberta – very glad you like my recipes! Make sure you buy liquid stevia that is “alcohol-free” – it seems like some brands use alcohol – you can do some research to find out why I suggest this. I’ve been using NuNaturals since I started with stevia and have been happy with the quality of the product. Also, make sure you start with only a small amount as the liquid is very concentrated.
I will be spending this Valentine’s Day missing my incredible – albeit long distance – boyfriend, who will be busy training for basketball. I will continue my Thursday night routine in the gym with a Barre Burn class followed by Zumba before taking my roommate out to a fresh and healthy dinner!
I’ll be spending Valentine’s Day with my wonderful husband of 47 years.
My husband is cooking me a healthy, delicious meal for Valentine’s day and I’m in charge of the ambiance. We’ll be spending a quiet evening together talking about our upcoming trip to London and Paris. We’ve never tried the Stevia flavored sweeteners before, but it sounds like a GREAT product. I have liked your FB page and get your daily smoothie emails. Loving this healthy lifestyle and so grateful to have you as a resource.
I’m not sure what I’ll be doing on Valentine’s Day. Maybe a nice lunch with hubby while the kids are at school. I liked both pages. Thanks for the great contest!
I will be spending Valentine’s Day alone again this year. my fiance’ was killed in an auto accident last year just after a perfect VD together, and I would be hard pressed to have a better day than that. I am getting ready to move on, but not yet. BUT I will be having something chocolate… because HOW can a VD pass without CHOCOLATE???? this chocolate strawberry smoothie will also be tried….. Have a fantastic Valentine’s Day Everyone.
I hope to be enjoying this smoothie with my hubby and my daughter after their workouts are over.
My hubby is making me dinner and dessert!
I will be spending Valentine’s Day with my kids. The evening will be spent having a healthy dinner and trip to the temple with my husband! I liked both pages.
I will be spending the evening having an anti-valentine’s day with some of my besties. We are making a healthy dinner with healthy deserts, and talking smack LOL.
Ooops.. I already like the LTF page, but I liked the NuNaturals page today
Thanks
Valentine’s Day to me is nothing but a Hallmark holiday- I will be treating it just like any other day!
My husband and I will be taking our two favorite Valentines out to dinner (that would be our two young daughters!) Love your page and daily smoothie recipes, and very interested in the NuNaturals Stevia, I’ve never tried anything like that before!
I will be making a lovely dinner at home for my valentine and our two darling kids. I have liked both Facebook pages.
I don’t know what my husband has planned for us on V-day, but it will be great. I plan to purchase some of the stevia drops asap, even if I win some!
I am going to enjoy a raw dinner out with my sweet husband.
My husband and I will spend our 24th Valentine’s Day enjoying dinner and a movie….with our five kids! They’re the product of our love, right?
I love the smoothie-a-day emails and have tried almost all of them! Yummy!!
Didn’t have anything planned until I won a pair of concert tickets today…so that’s what I’ll be doing now! I’ve liked both FB pages too. Just recently found your site and I love it!!
Wow that’s awesome Amanda! My sister just went to a NKOTB concert – amazing how that group is still together
Your smoothie recipe looks great, just found you through Pinterest. For Valentines Day this year, my better half will be just returning from a trip to the middle east for work so we’ll have a quiet, jet lag powered evening that I’m guessing will end around 1900! We just exchange cards at Valentine’s Day, what we are both looking forward to is a trip at the end of the month that we gave each other for Christmas. Thanks for hosting a great giveaway!
Nice to meet you Wendy! Please email me your pinterest link so I can follow you back. Sounds like a great plan for V-Day, and have fun on your holiday trip.
What a sweet…., pun intended….., idea. I’ve enjoyed reading your other guests comments and their plans for v-day. No plans yet but I’m trying to get my boss to have a smoothie a day for health purposes. After reading your blog I realized she wasn’t ready for the amount of greens in her drink. Thank you for making this such an informative blog. Back to the cutting board….. It’s not easy being green. : )
We will be celebrating Valentine’s this weekend with a romantic trip to Chicago for the weekend. We will be eating at our favorite restuarants, shopping, going to the auto show and possibly the theater.
Don’t have anything planned yet, but I plan to send my team home early, so they can celebrate it with their sweethearts.
My husband and I will be spending a quiet evening at home. After dinner we will probably watch a movie and munch on some sweet potato chips which I will be making in my dehydrator.
I’m so glad I signed up to receive your smoothie a day emails. Can’t wait to try your raw chocolate superfood smoothie.
I’m following the LTF Facebook page
I’m following the NuNaturals Facebook page
Thanks and have an AWESOME day!
Thanks so much Susanne! Sweet potato chips sound amazing – must try
I will be spending time with my 4 kids since my hubby will be on second shift this will give me and my kids time to read all their valentine day cards that they pass out in class!! but once i get all i need to make this smoothie I will be sure to share with my VALENTINE! keep up the good work!
I will be working on Valentine’s day as usual , teaching classes and running the gym all day. BUT I will have the time in the morning with my two sons and wonderful partner. I always enjoy making them something good to eat for Valentine’s Day, because I love my guys…This year, I will bake fresh healthy muffins and make the usual healthy smoothies they get every day. This time maybe, I’ll use strawberries, goji berries, bananas, oatmeal and chia seeds for their super-nutrified shakes! I liked your page a LONG time ago and I like the NuNaturals page! Have a happy Valentine’s Day! Love and Peace! Rasa
I will be meeting my husband for lunch and sharing a nice dessert in the evening. I hope you enjoy your Valentine’s day! You are a real inspiration to me and look forward to your posts more than you can imagine! Enjoy!
Wow thanks so much Lisa! I look forward to seeing you around here
I plan on spending Valentine’s Day evening first with my Mom, who is in a nursing home, and then later at home with my 3 loveable beagles and my parrot. They all get special treats tomorrow. I would love to win the NuNaturals chocolate and maybe the lemon stevia!
I plan to spend Valentines Day home schooling my 3 beautiful kids, then off to work in the afternoon with the elementary school kids at the daycare where I am a director. Dinner time with hubby will be a veggie sushi date night together. I AM DEFINITELY MAKING THIS SMOOTHIE TO TAKE TO WORK TODAY!!
I’ll spend the afternoon at my youngest daughter’s class party, and then a relaxing evening at home with the three loves of my life — my hubby and our two girls! Happy to have run across your blog. Thanks for the giveaway!
Great post, Allen. I use stevia in my coffee every morning, but have never thought to put it in my smoothies and I’ve never tried flavored stevia. I’ll be trying out your recipe. That looks delicious.
I want to win so I can try some stevia. I stayed home today “sick” to have a great day with my boyfriend. Winning this contest would be the icing on the cake.
I surprised with wife with a dinner cruise – we had a wonderful time and she was so excited – normally I don’t do any thing but some flowers but this year I wanted to show her how much I love her and I thought a nice evening out enjoying the scenery along the river was going to be perfect – and it was perfect.
On another topic, I do very much enjoy your smoothie recipes Allen. I take one to work almost every morning.
I did absolutely nothing but fill in this entry form
Chocolate Stevia has to be wonderful – I can’t wait to try it after I win (wink wink)
Here in Australia we dont have NuNaturals, what can I use as an alternative?